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I like Fez as a game, but some of the puzzles are just too masturbatory or don't make sense in the context of the game.
Spoilers * The fox part in particular.*
Also, the lack of quick travel gets grating.

Yeah that and the ones with QR codes - Fez doesn't really strike me as a game where the solutions to puzzles should require out of game knowledge/legwork (other than cheating and looking up the answers obviously, might have done that quite a bit myself, very lazy nowadays!).

To be fair, those are extra puzzles. You don't need them to finish the game. Only if you want to completely get everything. I actually liked that there were some obscure and stupidly impossible puzzles. Not that I would even try to complete them, but at least they're there for the people who enjoy that kind of stuff.

Well, this sucks. I've reinstalled Fallout 3 TWICE and the game keeps crashing everytime I tried to play a new game. Tried fiddling around with the .ini file but no dice. Looked around all day for a fix too but it's too much time wasted on that so, off to SimCity 4 with NAM. Least the city's growing nicely despite the lack of hi-tech around

Is it the GOTY edition, or just the base game? I had similar problems with constant crashes of the GOTY edition, eventually it turned out to be related to the load order of the different DLC's being wrong. Installing the mod manager (along with the community fixes) so you could manually set the load order fixed it for me.

Then after a few hours I just gave up as the game turned out to be way too dull.

Well, this sucks. I've reinstalled Fallout 3 TWICE and the game keeps crashing everytime I tried to play a new game. Tried fiddling around with the .ini file but no dice. Looked around all day for a fix too but it's too much time wasted on that so, off to SimCity 4 with NAM. Least the city's growing nicely despite the lack of hi-tech around

Dumb question, but make sure you disable all mods and do a clean install.

I had problems with one of the Bethesda games for far too long because the download on the nexus didn't explicitly state that a separate download was required for the resources. Yeah...

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Played about 90 minutes of The Swapper. I was actually bored for the first 15 or so minutes and thinking yet another one of those metroidvansomethings where I need to go back and forth n times before I figure out what I need to fetch to be able and get past this puzzle, until the revelation hit me like a bright flash of light and made me go "cleeeeeeeeeeeeeever" and from that point on I was properly hooked.

Originally Posted by Tikey

To be fair, those are extra puzzles. You don't need them to finish the game. Only if you want to completely get everything. I actually liked that there were some obscure and stupidly impossible puzzles. Not that I would even try to complete them, but at least they're there for the people who enjoy that kind of stuff.

Thanks for Tikey so I don't have to think about what to reply and then give up. All that is good with the game is more than good enough that I hardly ever felt frustrated with it (there was one bonus stage near the e nd where I came close though). Like for some bands, you need to be able to put the public persona of the frontman aside and just enjoy the experience, there was nothing in the game that made me think about the poisson guy anyway.

Just finished Moebius. I liked it and I thoroughly disagree with the WIT on the front page. Mostly because it reads more like Mr Walker had decided he didn't like then wrote arguments to support the preconceived notion. (especially cheap shots like the 'rape' picture, which makes sense in context, but ripped out of context you can wave it around and be offended by it)

Yes, the animations suck. No excuse here.
Yes, the story is not literature. Though I'd rate it about your average conspiracy fare. (and the ending wasn't the strongest part)
Yes, there are weak puzzles. Though they are a good deal more logical then I'm used to in adventure games.

I enjoyed the meta-puzzling with the investigations.

The rest of the WIT seemed more like an ad hominem attack to the developer in a case of mistaking the narrator for the writer. I did not find the game having contempt for women, nor men, except for certain individuals, which are indeed objectified as being puzzles/obstacles, especially considering how the examples are described.

I'd say if you enjoyed Gray Matter, and do not object the lead character resembling the one from QWOP due to the marring animations, you will enjoy this game.

Out of my 8 kids, only 2 of them were boys. One of them was a genius... he died of an ilness before he was 1 years old. Oh well, I'm only 30 years old, I'll make more kids. To this end, I had my aging wife murdered and got myself a attractive lustful princess from Georgia. Helping them out with a minor civil war was a small price, really. She is pregnant now, I'm hoping for a great heir.

There was some infighting between the muslims, Arabs and Persians were fighting, you see. The Arabs wanted to subjugate all of Persia.I was not going to allow it, of course. Over the last 40 years they did a lot to unify the muslim front against me and since I only control the coastline of the Holy Land, some of Anatolia and coast of Egypt, I border the Arab empire almost exclusively. I declared war on them and kept fighting even after they tried to surrender the eastern Syrian provinces to me.

The Persians managed to hold their own with me keeping the vast majority of Arab forces committed and after the Arabs surrendered to both of us some factions in the Caliphate took this chance to revolt. With most of the loyalist soldiers dead, I don't know what will happen. Maybe they'll break apart and become easy pickings.

edit: Oh and I captured the Caliph's 6 years old daughter.I am having one of my courtiers educate her as a proper christian. Heh, heh.

I was trekking through here to see what folks were playing when I came upon this post. After the first sentence I was ready to offer my condolences. After the second I was...worried. Until the last word of the first paragraph I was beginning to become very concerned.

Then I saw the word 'heir' and knew immediately I had missed something. So I scrolled back up a ways and saw the 'Playing Crusader Kings 2' line at the top.

Does this game always generate such in depth personal narratives? Much as I enjoy reading and a good intrigue, perhaps I overlooked this somehow.

Now, if only I could find something as atmospheric as Dark Souls without the frustration level...back to Steam I go.

You may not be able to play them, but if you have a GC, Wii, or very, very powerful computer you should give the Metroid Prime series a shot. They're absolute masterclasses in level design, difficulty, archaeological storytelling and atmosphere. Far better than DaS, I'd go so far as to say.

Kerbal Space Program, and lots of it. It's an unbelievably versatile game, I spent hours making my own sub-orbital aircraft based on The Flying Bedstead, quadcopter drones (except with rockets instead of propellers) and the Ryan Vertijet. Then I decided to just get on with it and made a rocket that was four stages of solid fuel boosters (the first stage is many, many rockets, second is 12, third is 3 and the final is just one) and two stages of liquid fuel rockets, though the second is completely redundant because the first has more than enough fuel to get me quite far away from Kerbin indeed... At one end of the orbit. The other end is still pretty low. I only started playing yesterday and I've already done 13 hours.

Just started Zork. It's really fun just trying to map the place! I started drawing a map, and the geometry of the place is really interesting and tricky.

I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardustís Music Sounds Better With You. Thereís lots of fog. --tomeoftom

I went back to playing Soul Sacrifice on my Vita. Been getting into the Multiplayer side of it, which is much more fun than the solo, though the solo side is where you'll get all of the really good lore from the game.

"Halo is designed to make the player think "I look like that, I am macho sitting in my undies with my xbox""

Well, I am playing AC Black Flag and Red Dead Redemption (ps3). Actually, these two games have pretty alive open worlds... but the most interesting thing is that second missions are more breath-taking than main quest lines... Also I bought Battle slots for my xbox360 (I am a fan of slot machines but I play only free=) ). And I bought it because I just found a video on youtube))) and it reminded me this game http://webslotcasino.com/battlestar_galactica. I used to play it for hours... well, lets see what xbox360 Battle slots can offer for my brainzzzzz=)

Well, I am playing AC Black Flag and Red Dead Redemption (ps3). Actually, these two games have pretty alive open worlds... but the most interesting thing is that second missions are more breath-taking than main quest lines... Also I bought Battle slots for my xbox360 (I am a fan of slot machines but I play only free=) ). And I bought it because I just found a video on youtube))) and it reminded me this game http://webslotcasino.com/battlestar_galactica. I used to play it for hours... well, lets see what xbox360 Battle slots can offer for my brainzzzzz=)

Wouldn't a slot machine without money involved just be pressing a button and randomly winning or losing? Doesn't really sound like hours worth of entertainment to me, but to each his own, I suppose.

Wouldn't a slot machine without money involved just be pressing a button and randomly winning or losing? Doesn't really sound like hours worth of entertainment to me, but to each his own, I suppose.

That's what a slot machine WITH money is too. Only without the winning part.

I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardustís Music Sounds Better With You. Thereís lots of fog. --tomeoftom

I was trekking through here to see what folks were playing when I came upon this post. After the first sentence I was ready to offer my condolences. After the second I was...worried. Until the last word of the first paragraph I was beginning to become very concerned.

Then I saw the word 'heir' and knew immediately I had missed something. So I scrolled back up a ways and saw the 'Playing Crusader Kings 2' line at the top.

Does this game always generate such in depth personal narratives? Much as I enjoy reading and a good intrigue, perhaps I overlooked this somehow.

Yea, but much of that that in-depth narrative will involve miserable defeat for your faction unless you are a veteran powergamer. Your head of family will go bug-eating insane while your greedy children tear your holdings apart murdering each other which will leave your last-standing heir to be the one who turned out to be a flaming bender. Trying to do any actual crusading in the holy land inevitably ends as a gloriously expensive fiasco. Crusader Kings gives the same sort of enjoyment a child gets by poking an anthill with a stick just to see what will happen.

Yea, but much of that that in-depth narrative will involve miserable defeat for your faction unless you are a veteran powergamer. Your head of family will go bug-eating insane while your greedy children tear your holdings apart murdering each other which will leave your last-standing heir to be the one who turned out to be a flaming bender. Trying to do any actual crusading in the holy land inevitably ends as a gloriously expensive fiasco. Crusader Kings gives the same sort of enjoyment a child gets by poking an anthill with a stick just to see what will happen.

Very interesting. Also, that fits with much of what I have read about the game now I think back on it. Most of the best stories in this game do seem to revolve around defeat. Utter, complete, glorious defeat.